The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-08-09
Late Foreign Clippings.

Senator Sherman says the story of
the attempt to kidnap him at Cuba
is 3 huge joke.
George William Curtis thinks
Blaine will be weaker candidate in
1888 than in 1884.
Ex-Secretary Manning's health is
rapidly improving. He is in Eng
land.
Prince Bismarck says French
sympathizers in Alsace-Lorraine
must either remain inactive or go to
French territory.
/ IOmaha is organizing a vigilance
Committee for the purpose of sup
pressing the thugs and thieves that
overrun the city.
The Delaware Legislature has en-
acted a law prohibiting absolutely
the manufacture and sale of imita-
ton or adulterated butter.
The Pennsylvania Senate has
passed a resolution submitting to the
people proposition TO confer upon
women the right of suffrage.
= Rabbi Gerstmann of st. Louis, who
was a lieutenant in the Florida War,
has een granted pension, with ar
rearsamounting to $4,000.
A meteor which glowed for a
quarter of an hour, but didn't move,
isfeported to have lighted up Quebec
and vicinity few nights ago.
Petroleum has been discovered
near Herscher, Kankakee county, Ill,
and experts from Pennsylvania have
leased all the land obtainable in the
district.
Orange parties are the proper
social events of the season, down
East, below Bangor. They get
round to strawberry festivals in Aug
ust.-BoStop Transcript
The receipts of the Brooklyn bridge
for March were about $4,000 more
than in March of last year, and nearly
$4,000 more than the expenditures
for the month.
An exchange says that Mrs. Maria
Reyes Hernandez of Vinelas, in the
pN5vince of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, has
died at the age of one hundred and
thirty-eight years.
The Michigan House has passed a
bill reviving capital punishment for
murder in that State. 1t is claimed
that premeditated homicides have
largely increased of late.
''Doc" Love Wilson, who is known
through the notorious suit he insti-
tu18 against Phillip L. Moen at
WORCESTER, Mass, attempted suicide
lately at Providence.
In duel in Mexico between Lieu
tenant Colonel Lunez of the Eighth
battalion and NJ. NJ. Savalla, Musi-
cal Director, attached to the COM
nand, both of the participants were
killed.
A woman of Spartanburg, S. c.,
while carrying an armload of wood,
was attacked recently by a rabid dog,
but turned the tables by beating out
the brains of the dog with one of her
billets.
In Santo Domingo, Cuba, they
have recently had a remarkable
Mayor. He was in partnership with
a band of brigands, and was doing
very well until he was discovered.
Now he is in jail.
w. K. Vanderbilt has offered |
$500, 200 for the house and grounds
called ''Vineland" at Newport, left |
by Miss Catherine Lorillard Wolfe !
to Louis L. Lorillard, but the offer
was refused.
Johann Richter, a young appren-
tice to a piano-maker, has startled |
the citizens of Vienna by climbing
453 feet to the topmost part of the |
tower of st. Stephens Cathedral.
He tied pennant to the cross.
AT the sail of the paintings and |
bric-a-brac of the late President
Arthur a picture of General Sheri-
dams war horse brought SD, while
the price obtained for the portrait of
ex-senator Conkling was but 81.
TNe two most wealthy and fashion
able EpiscopaIian churches in New
York are to be made free as to pews.
They are Grace and Trinity. As
fast as ownership Of pews is lost they
will be withdrawn from market.
The Inter Oceans Washington
special says: Senator Vest, who was
the leading champion in the Senate
of the Eads Ship Railway project,
has expressed the opinion that the
death of Captain Eads will be the
death of the project.
John Roy and William Carson,
neSr neighbors at Chattanooga,
Tenn, were on very friendly terms